Example sentences of "[conj] did it [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The play doh , the plasticine , what happened to the plasticine , did it float or did it sink ? |
| 2 | Did this er , going back to Helliwells again , repairing of the aircraft , did that cease when the war finished or did it continue for a time afterwards ? |
| 3 | Did it feel like it was a well-organized group , or did it feel ? |
| 4 | ‘ Did it turn your mouth green ? ’ said Rosa to Caterina , ignoring her mother 's placatory offer , ‘ Or did it make your lovely lips pink ? ’ |
| 5 | Or did it make any difference either way ? |
| 6 | Did the population remain more or less static after the dramatic decline in the second half of the fourteenth century , or did it make a rapid recovery from the first wave of epidemics ? |
| 7 | or did it mean a few more ‘ Hail Marys ’ |
| 8 | Or did it mean just what it said ? |
| 9 | Or did it regard ‘ conduct ’ , used in the legislation , as being qualified in the same way as ’ misconduct ‘ in Creffield 's contract of employment ? |
| 10 | Can it have changed much — or did it rain so pre-emptively that he can not have noticed the lovely inlets at Isleornsay , their green banked lands sloping to soft-coloured waters ? |
| 11 | It is hard to judge how much weight should be given to such utterances ; was the designation ‘ northerner ’ intended to be purely geographical and descriptive , or did it reflect a feeling that these were men almost of a different race ? |
| 12 | Or did it comment that out ? |
| 13 | Now what did you think about this lesson was it a bit boring at some time or you think , Oh or did it go too quickly No . |
| 14 | Was it simply curiosity — or did it go deeper than that , and was she right to have this strange feeling of apprehension ? |
| 15 | Its mystery somehow diminished life , or did it enlarge it by making life and its purpose more mysterious still . |
| 16 | ‘ Or did it suit your plans , after that miserable failure last night ? ’ |
| 17 | Or did it pick me up ! |
| 18 | Was Venus born dry , or did it become dry ? |
| 19 | ) Or did it reveal a conservative attitude at the heart of a movie that is dressed up in hippie garb ? |
| 20 | Did this modernism , in Jürgen Habermas 's terms , deepen and extend the rationalist Enlightenment project , or did it undermine that project ? |
| 21 | Was it purely physical or did it have a psychosomatic dimension , as her sudden and dramatic recovery could indicate ? |
| 22 | Or did it have to be somebody like Sir Edward ? |
| 23 | But I w I was wondering myself did the watchmen make up the story or did it come ? |
| 24 | You see this thing did you buy this separately or did it come in the Walkman ? |
| 25 | Was it me or did it look like the game was in slow motion then ? |
| 26 | The offer , reported by the official ADN news agency , contained no date for such negotiations , nor did it specify which groups should take part . |
| 27 | Nor did it threaten London 's long-term position among the world 's main financial centres . |
| 28 | Nor did it demand that Israel , like the PLO , abandon the use of violence in its treatment of enemy civilians either inside or beyond the territories under its control . |
| 29 | He argued that the public did not stand at the box-office window and demand dramas with happy endings or which mixed pathos and humour , nor did it demand comedy made up of ‘ slapstick ’ , ‘ gags ’ with ‘ three or so dashes of serious situation and a bit of irony to top off ’ . |
| 30 | There could be no other reason , and yet that did not accord with the placidity of his face and his voice , nor did it match with the image Harry was beginning to form of him . |